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Queen flies solo in fighter jet

Queen Suthida has flown a Gripen fighter jet solo for the first time, the royal household revealed, watched on by her husband King Maha Vajiralongkorn, himself a keen pilot.

Embracing the ‘dinosaur rush’

A dinosaur statue stands guard outside a temple, a hint at the ancient giants buried deep in the earth below making up northeastern Thailand's "dinosaur rush".

Care centre inspected after claims of assault

Crime Sup­pres­sion Division (CSD) officers inspected a care centre housing 92 patients in Kanchanaburi province on Oct 5, after a complainant alleged assault and confinement.

50 years on, little has changed

Fifty years after a student demonstration against dictatorship ended in a massacre, Thailand's latest generation of protesters say they still face threats including prosecution, jail or exile.

US carrier visits Phuket, personnel to get R&R

The US aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush arrived in the resort island of Phuket with about 4,800 personnel aboard for a rest-and-recreation break after six months supporting US operations in the Middle East.

One small card, a world of difference

Next to a mound of black earth, Myanmar refugees feed soil and rice seed into a clacking conveyor machine that arranges them into ready-made planting trays for Thai farms.

US$122mil relief for flood victims

THE government has approved emergency funds for flood victims amounting to US$122mil (RM498mil) following a deluge that had battered the country since mid-September, affecting more than 2.6 million people and killing at least 23.

From outsider to royal monk

Briton rises through the ranks to become kingdom's first non-Thai monastic leader.

Rain prompts special holidays

The country's Cabinet approved special holidays on Sept 28 and 29 for civil servants in Bangkok and three surrounding provinces due to heavy rainfall.

Thai court rejects petition against 2026 poll

The country's Constitutional Court dismissed a petition challenging the legality of February's general election, ruling that the ballot papers used did not violate voter secrecy.